Percent Body Weight Gained at Sitar

After a several-month hiatus, the next challenge took place on February 17, 2009. We didn't want to do the same style of eating competition each time, so for our third event we changed up the rules.  We had lab lunch at Sitar, an Indian restaurant with a good lunch buffet.  We weighed in at lab before and after, and whoever gained the highest percent of their body weight won it all.

Final results:
Ian 3.1378%
Dan 2.8090%
Vipender 2.6367%
Thanh 2.3483%
Jared 2.2857%
Dave 2.1972%
Phil 2.0579%
Katie 1.7452%

The extra significant figures are an intentional homage to the idiocy of Biggest Loser.  Sadly, they did not provide the margin of victory as Ian won handily.  Here he is celebrating:

Most Wings at Buffalo Wild Wings

The second eating challenge may still be the most controversial of all time (mostly because I'm still pissed about it).  Buffalo Wild Wings has all-you-can-eat wings during Monday Night Football, so on November 24, two months after corn dogs, we got a big group together to eat as many as possible.  Simple rules again: whoever eats the most wings wins.  The service was horrible, and we had big gaps between finishing a set of wings and getting our next set.  Dan ended up on top with just 42 wings, and to get even that high he had to scavenge wings from other people as they dropped out.  There are no pictures from that night's event, so I leave you simply with an accurate portrayal of the evening in the form of a video: http://mcooki.es/64822.

How It All Got Started - Corndogs

September 8, 2008, at 7 PM, a group of us gathered in Thanh's apartment.  I'm not sure exactly how it started, but I think Dan and Trexler had been debating how many corn dogs they each could eat.  This led to the infamous guarantee by Trexler that if he couldn't eat twelve he would come to work the next day wearing a skirt.  He made it to twelve, but finished second to Jared with thirteen corn dogs to win the first eating challenge.  This remains one of the most painful challenges, and we ate far less food that night than in most or all of the comparable challenges since.  Not sure what it is about corn dogs that makes them so delicious at two and so revolting at six.

Welcome

We've waited too long for this - the official MB&B Eating Challenge blog. We're about 10 or so challenges in, so I'll slowly post the results and photos from those. I'll also post lookaheads to future competitions.

In that vein, July's eating competition will be Tour de Rice. We will all get 10 cups pounds (cups would be too easy) of rice we may prepare however we like, and the first to eat it all wins. There will also be daily and hourly competitions.

Looking farther ahead, we have chocolate pies, dog racing, wasabi, another buffet...